Communicating unknown words in machine translation

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1542-1547

  Eck, Matthias ^a   Vogel, Stephan ^a   Waibel, Alex ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

BILINGUAL RESOURCES; MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; NEW APPROACHES; ONLINE DICTIONARIES; SOURCE LANGUAGE; TRANSLATION QUALITY;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 84981333159     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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